Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-05-14

R1shville is securing the east for factories.
Germ planting is all the rage In the coun-
try.
Weeping Water is negotiating for a towel
factory.
The saloon license In Blair has been raised
to al 200.
The school treasury of Fremont has SIC, 900
In sight.
Holdredge is aeitetics for water works and
a creamery.
Lincoln has organized a board Of trade and
freight bureau.
The old bank of BARLEY will be fitted up for
the postoffice.
The Hickman Enterprise has ended its first
years troubles.
The Masons of Fremont have dccided to
build a temple.
The school census gives Lincoln a popula.
ton Of 80, $40.
The farmers of Wayne county have organ
lied an alliance.
The Prohibltionists OF Omaha have a full
ticket IN the field.
The Wahoo creamery is completed and
ready for business.
Beaver Crossing, Seward county, has a new
weekly called the Bugle.
The creamery at Sutton was burned Mon
day. The loss is 81, 1000.
The census shows there are 800 school
children ia Custer county.
a daily Democratic paper viii be started at
Hastings about the 23rd inst.
r.cb, n A.. J,a,, p,bcor{h.1 az aarna. 20
sink a natural gas well 5000 feet,
Brewster, Blaine county, celebrated with a
msypole dance on Saturday night.
The N2rfols Daily Gazette has ceased pub
~lication. 1t was a morning issue.
Arapahoe had another destructive fire last
week, during which four horses were cremated.
The principal loser was Ed Haymaker.
Joseph Letter, a farm hand in Saunders
coun y dead while harrSwing a field near
Wahoo, Friday afternoon. Heart disease.
Giving Is putting in some town pumps for
fire purposes and to furnish water for re-
ducing the swelling in the heads Of her old
buns.
The night Waterman at the Quenchaqua
mills. at Milford, accidentally shot himself
In the arm Sunday night. The wound is not
serious.
Albert Murray, a young man near Ewing,
IN Holt county, was thrown from a horse
onto u fencepost, cutting one Of his ears en-
tirely of.
Robert Hawke Of Nebraska City, died re-
Gently. He was In business for thirty
eight years In Nebraska and had atnassed a
large fortune.
Henry Rohiff brings suit In the Douglas
county court for false imprisonment, and
claims damages at 81 900. He was in jail six
hours on a charge Of larceny.
A corkscrcw cyclone threw dust and chips
in the eyes OF the residents of Strong last
Sunday. The school house was stove In, some
shanties unroofed and three ladies stripped
of their skirts.
Mr.. +. l.. Cal has built a large fish pond
on his farm near Rising City. The pond
covers an acre of ground, and will hold twelve
feet OF water. He proposes to stock 1t with
various kinds of fish.
Two swindlers are making money out OF the
farmers In the state by selling barrels Of SUI
gar at Hdii bIttt. Inc SNutlilC NOuSlSlS II
placing a few pounds of sugar on top of IA
bed OF ordinary salt, but this Is not generally
discovered until the parties are well out OF
reach.
a syndicate composed Of home and foreign
capital purchased the Dodge eighty.
acre tract, one mile south Of Beatrice, for
plating st $3.50 per acre. A tract Of l6J acres
Joining the city on the east has also been
bought for the same purpose AT $500 per acre.
Mr.. Avery, a citizen Of Lincoln, was s,uggcd
on the night Of the 4th inst. while stanGing!D
his own door way, by a couple Of tramps, who
begged for something to cat, and after get
ting into the house secured $500 ia money
and other valuables. The police have no clue
TO the perpetrators.
Articles Of Incorporation Of the American
District Telegraph company were filed in the
secretary of states office at Lincoln on the
with q capital Of 800, 600, to continue for fifty
years. 1t will do business In all the north
western states and territories.
The two colored soldiers, George Conrad
and Daniel eastman, who ravished Mrs.
Stephenson at Valentine on the goth ult.
were tried before Judge Kinkaid on the 30tb,
convicted and sentenced to twenty years each
in the penitentiary. The fends perpetrated
their foul outrage I'm the presence Of her little
son. This is quick iu~stice-arrested, tried,
convicted and started for the penitentiary
within forty hours.
A serious accident occurred Wednesday
evening last on the Scribner branch Of the
Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley rail-
road at a point about five miles west Of New
man Grove. The bridge gang were at work
on a bridge there, and through the breaking
OF a guy rope, which held in place the seventh
bent OF the bridge, this bent toppled over,
knocking down all the rest, one Of which fell
on three Of the workmen. John Ruxham's
arm was broken, 7. Is. Richards leg broken,
and John Dillon, badly bruised and internal
injuries.
Warrants were issued Monday Tor the
arrest OF a number OF saloon men Of Dunbar,
who participated in a dastardly outrage at
that place Sunday morning. At the late cleo
ton the town went for prohibition and the
list Of May the saloons were refused license
by the village board. Anonymous letters OF
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